Just another happy rag by one of them broads.

Nouri in Chair Images number 2.

It’s 3:30 in the morning and I am sitting here in my beautiful soft red bathrobe that my daughter gave me last night and that she lugged all the way from Texas with her. It’s so soft and comfortable, it feels like a queen’s robe made of the finest velvet. Needless to say, I was very happy with it and you all now that that is what I wanted most of all, so it was a perfect gift. The color suits me very well too and Eduard says that it makes my rosy cheeks stand out.So, we had the Americans over for dinner last night and it was very nice, as they liked what I had cooked and ate everything I fixed. We exchanged presents afterwards and that was a great success too. We had bought perfumes for the ladies and cologne for the man and I think we made the right choices, because my daughter told her boyfriend that he could only wear his cologne when she was around.

We bought Anaïs for my daughter which was a perfume she used to wear when she was fifteen years old and when I saw the bottle in the store I just had to get it, because it made me feel nostalgic when I tried the tester. For the boyfriend’s mother we got Noa, which is also a very good perfume, but more for the mature woman, I thought. We got Hugo Boss for the boyfriend. So, all will go back to the States smelling very nice.

Eduard got beautiful wind chimes that have a deep rich sound and we hope it will not drive the neighbors crazy, although we have thought about hanging them up inside by the open window, where the summer breeze will catch them. We’ll see, they will be fun to walk into accidentally all the time to hear them chime. Jesker was very interested in them and really checked them out thoroughly.

So, we had a successful evening and luckily, we didn’t make it too late, because by nine o’clock I was starting to yawn very impolitely, but not on purpose. I couldn’t help myself. That means nine o’clock is my official bedtime. Although I suppose I could stretch that by half an hour.

The boyfriend’s mother also has a Cocker Spaniel and was giving lots of love and attention to Jesker and Jesker fell completely in love with her and didn’t move from her side. At one point he even wanted to climb on her lap and we have never seen him do that, he was so smitten. He didn’t want anybody else to come between the two of them. Sometimes a cat dared come into the vicinity and Jesker gently growled them away. I think he was sorry to see her go. She is going back to the States tomorrow and the boyfriend is taking her to Charles de Gaulle airport today and then returning here to finish his vacation with my daughter.

We got complimented on the way the apartment looked, especially by my daughter who has seen it differently and who’s opinion definitely counts. She says that everything matches very well and that the whole thing is pulled together very nicely. She didn’t miss the two red throw pillows that I still want to get for the sofa and that I didn’t point out to her as she was sitting on it. Only I would know something like that. And she very tactfully didn’t notice how everything needs to be painted again, especially the baseboards! Those rotten baseboards! There ought to be a law against baseboards like that…

Anyway, tonight my daughter is fixing dinner for us and that will be very special as she is a good cook. I can’t take any credit for this, because I didn’t teach her how. She learned it all by herself, which is the way I learned it also. Neither one of us had patient mothers who stood in the kitchen with us and showed us how and how many amounts and how long to cook something. Which in my case is probably a good thing, because my mother cooked everything to death. She probably cooked all the vitamins out of the food.

That reminds me that I forgot to call my oldest sister last night like I promised I would. Oh, I don’t like that. I will have to call her this morning. It’s a shame that I am so sleepy early in the evening and not coherent enough to remember to do these things. It’s a good thing that Eduard takes the dog out for his evening walk, I might forget that too.

As a joke gift, Eduard got a refrigerator magnet in the shape of two very elaborate Texas cowboy boots. They are great and a real good souvenir. Eduard wants more of these kinds of things now. He’s got a Harvard T-shirt and an Alaska T-shirt, so now he really needs a Texas T-shirt as well. I am sure that my daughter will take care of that.

Okay, I am off to read the other blogs. I don’t have that much to report anyway.

Have a wonderful day, all you Texas Rangers and other folk. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Ciao…

Nice to see you making new mandalas, Irene. They are such a peaceful thing to make don’t you think? So good that you enjoyed your time last night and I can just imagine the sweet smelling people sitting around your living room..well they did try it didn’t they?

My Christmas morning is just starting. The sun is not up yet and the Guinea Fowl are still in their tree. dh is lightly snoring as he sleeps. Soon we will be bustling around getting everything ready to take to Lake Tawakoni where my son lives.